Lao Tzu Quotes
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Quotes to Explore
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
